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There they were, scattered through the 15-room mansion of Texas Oil Millionaire Algur Hurtle Meadows, elegantly framed paintings by nearly every leading painter of Paris. You name them, Meadows had them-Picasso, Matisse, Dufy, Derain, Modigliani, Bonnard, Degas, and on and on. For insurance purposes, they had been appraised by New York Art Expert Carroll Hogan at $1,362,750. On the market, works by such artists might fetch $3,000,000. But, confided Oilman Meadows to his admiring guests, they had cost him "closer to $400,000 than a million," and maybe as little...
...named Juliette Lacaze, asked her to change her name to Domenica in celebration of the day-Sunday-on which they met. Together they formed a collection based on their strong convictions as to who was and who was not important. Their apartment was filled with Renoir but not Braque. Derain but not Leger, Matisse but not Chagall. All but one of their Picassos were "classic period" nudes...
...result has proved a tremendous success. The brilliant sunlight of Attica and classical background give such modern works as Matisse's Head of Jeannette an air of repose and permanence. Andre Derain's Girl with Long Hair has gained a depth of dimension it never had in France's Chardin Gallery, and the razor-sharp shadows endow Henry Moore's prowlike Standing Figure with a new monumentality. As for Renoir's Venus Triumphant, with her well-rounded grace she looked ready for installation above it all in the Parthenon itself...
Paley owns 103 paintings at the moment, of which about 40 are major works. They are mainly by Postimpressionists, and he, with an instinct for the durable, bought most of them cheaply in the '20s and '30s. He has a Derain that he found on the floor of the artist's studio in Paris, covered with dust. Among his Matisses is one that Matisse originally refused to part with, but, says Paley, "I wheedled...
...ANDRE DERAIN-Hutton, 41 East 57th St. Forty-four bronzes by a painter who sculpted for fun. Also at Hutton: a groupt of German expressionist painters, including Gabriele Münter, Ernst Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky. Through...